Carnac - Brittany, Skegness of France…
much better than skeggy, but does have that kinda feel to it! Full of british tourists who, although they drive bmws and are ‘professional’ types, still manage to illustrate a degenerate society abroad, shouting to be understood in the same way monty python did in the watneys red barrel sketch. Led by their noses by unruley children who scream more than thank their gratitude. What an arrogant nation we are! They should visit the baltics to discover how outdated and out classed we really are by the rest of Europe! There are some familiar aspects though. Smells such as old seaweed mixed with donoughts, perpetual rain and cloudy skies and of course sand and the driving wind. I suppose that should read coarse sand and driving wind. The seagulls are familiar too, as one tells a seagull joke and you hear all the others laugh along…did you hear the one about the englishman german and frenchman…. There is a purpose to coming here and it was to see the 3000 menhirs interspersed with stone tables, all of which are some 6000 years old built by prehistoric man. They are aligned east to west in parellel lines, quadrangles and circles, graduating from knee high to 3m high, from a quater ton to four tons. Whilst most cant be reached, just a few can be touched and you marvel not only at the why but the how. How, before engines, before pulleys and block and tackle, before bronze or iron, before chains and even before the wheel did these stones become positioned and placed some 10km from their quarry?. If it stops raining ill take some pictures…you will want to see more photos i know!
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